bullshit

Oh, I get it! So it's not a pyramid, it's just pyramid-shaped. You know, like a Dorito, or an Angry Bird, or just a pile of bullshit.

2016 November 6, “Multilevel Marketing”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 29, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:

(vulgar, literally) Feces produced by a bull.

Don't pay any attention to him. He talks a lot of bullshit.

The Illusive Man: Shepard. You're making a habit of costing me more than time and money.
Shepard: I'm sorry, I'm having trouble hearing you. I'm getting a lot of bullshit on this line.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC:

en:intentionally false or distorted information

(vulgar, slang, usual sense) Statements that are false or exaggerated to impress or cheat the listener.

That's total bullshit! I called your office and they said that you didn't come in!

Fucking load of bullshit! You smashed his skull and dropped the F-bomb at him, and now you're claiming that he assaulted you?!

(vulgar, slang) Statements that are transparently or offensively false.

en:rhetorically misleading claims, whether true or false

(rhetoric) Statements that are intentionally misleading, whether true or not.

Respect for the truth and a concern for the truth are among the foundations for civilization. I was for a long time disturbed by the lack of respect for the truth that I observed... bullshit is one of the deformities of these values.

Illusive Man: Shepard, you're making a habit of costing me more than time and money.
Shepard: I'm sorry, I'm having trouble hearing you. I'm getting a lot of bullshit on this line.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: After Collector Base: Final Battle:

(philosophy) Statements made without regard for their truth value.

These rules cover how to do your laundry, how to fold your shirts, how to shine your shoes... You know, all that bullshit.

And when I rolled with the punches I got knocked on the ground
By all this bullshit going down

1975, “Fight the Power (Part 1 & 2)”, in The Heat Is On, performed by The Isley Brothers:

(vulgar, slang) Synonym of shit (in its sense of any stuff, especially when viewed negatively or with collegial vulgarity).

shit

Anyone want to play a few hands of bullshit?

(card games, possibly vulgar) A card game in which players try to discard their hands first, following rules that encourage bluffing, calling others' bluffs, and penalizing others by tricking them into inaccurate accusations.

→ Czech: bulšit

خَرَابِيط

vulgar slang for deceptive or exaggerated nonsense — see also nonsense

حَچِي فَاضِي

ħɐʃ͡ʒi fɑːðˤi

чушь соба́чья

čušʹ sobáčʹja

هُرَاء

vulgar slang for patently or offensively false statements — see also nonsense


bullshit

a bullshit job

That’s the most bullshit excuse I’ve ever heard.

(vulgar, slang) Absurd, irrational, or nonsensical (most often said of speech, information, or content).

en-adj

bullshit (comparative more bullshit, superlative most bullshit)

more bullshit (comparative)
most bullshit (superlative)


bullshit

I think you’re bullshitting. Let’s just call your office and see if you even came in.

You’re bullshitting me. I called your office and you never even came in.

(transitive, intransitive, vulgar, slang) To tell lies, exaggerate; to mislead; to deceive.

I will probably just go and bullshit with Joe for a while.

(intransitive, vulgar, slang) To have casual conversation with no real point; to shoot the breeze.

We just went on stage and bullshitted the whole concert because we didn’t know any songs.

(intransitive, vulgar, slang) To come up with on the spot; to improvise.

en-verb

bullshit (third-person singular simple present bullshits, present participle bullshitting, simple past and past participle bullshitted or bullshit or (rare) bullshat)

bullshits (present singular third-person)
bullshitting (participle present)
bullshitted (participle past)
bullshitted (past)
bullshit (participle past)
bullshit (past)
bullshat (participle past rare)
bullshat (past rare)


bullshit

(vulgar, slang) An expression of disbelief at what one has just heard.